If you can get yourself to the point of using your machine, Heather, please keep us posted. Nearly 20 years ago I bought a quilting machine set up on a 14' frame, and taught myself and all my sisters, how to use a quilting machine. Then, 6 years or so ago, the DH bought me a brand new Gammill Classic set up on a 14' frame; big bucks (cost more than our first house) that my whole family enjoys using--there is a definite learning curve involved in using a quilting machine. Just be patient, practice, cuss when you have to, just don't give up. And, by the way, I sold my old quilting set-up for the same thing I paid for it some 15 years earlier.